For the last three days I've been soaked in the words and teachings of Parker Palmer. He is the author of a book called: Let Your Life Speak. I've always heard great things about it, but I didn't get along to reading it until recently.
This book is about finding your Vocation, not so much about finding a job. But doing what makes you happy. It's about dreaming, I'm not talking about dreaming, in terms of the new house we want to live in, car we want to drive or anything that we could touch with your bare hands.
But dreams that are stuck in our hearts. Parker always wanted to be a salesman and work on airplanes. But as he grew up, he always found himself at a typewriter, writing to he friends about how to make paper airplanes.
The word Vocation actually comes from the word voice. Let your life speak is about listening to our inner voice. What is true about us, we are loved, we are important. I realize that these might be words that are said over and over.
However when you read this book, it will move you without question. Parker speaks of his own battle with Depression and the fight to believe that he could amount to something, that his vision for community is something not to be taken lightly.
He envisioned a place were people could honestly deal with their pain, and not deal with cheap change answers. The most amazing part of this book is when he was neck deep in his despair, people gathered around him. A friend of his would rub his feet everyday, because his feet where the only place where he had feeling.
If you knew anything about Depression or despair, you know that it can hurt all over body, it can make you tired. There is something very beautiful and human in this book. Thousands of books become bestsellers, and really don’t say anything to shake the cage of the human heart.
This book has changed me. And all I can is that I beg you all to read this book. I don’t care if you have to buy it used, do it. You will never ever be the same.

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